TMNT: The Next Generation

Nightshade

INTRO - FADE

INT. A ROOM IN KARAI'S BASE - NIGHT

ROUX MONET, NIGHTSHADE, BEBOP 2, AND ROCKSTEADY 2 ARE ALL SITTING IN A ROOM TOGETHER

ROUX MONET

Okay, I'm sorry if I'm being rude, but why are you guys mutated? And I want to hear your stories one at a time. Nightshade, you first.

NIGHTSHADE

Uh... Okay...

NIGHTSHADE CLEARS HIS THROAT

NIGHTSHADE

So uh...

CUE FLASHBACK

EXT. ZOO - NIGHT

NIGHTSHADE

My father, he was uh... a zoo curator. Which is basically someone who's in charge of a zoo. He worked hard and opened that zoo when I was just three years old. And when I was five, we got all the animals.

WE CAN SEE YOUNG NIGHTSHADE AND HIS FATHER HIGH-FIVING

YOUNG NIGHTSHADE

This is so cool, dad!

NIGHTSHADE'S DAD

Aww, thanks buddy!

YOUNG NIGHTSHADE

I think the wolves are cool.

NIGHTSHADE'S DAD

Really, now?

YOUNG NIGHTSHADE

Yeah!!

NIGHTSHADE'S DAD PUTS A ZOO KEEPER VISOR ON YOUNG NIGHTSHADE

NIGHTSHADE'S DAD

Well, you can be in charge of the timber wolves, bud!

NIGHTSHADE'S DAD SMILES

YOUNG NIGHTSHADE

Yay!!

NIGHTSHADE

But then one night, as I was taking care of the timber wolves...

EXT. TIMBER WOLF EXHIBIT - NIGHT

WE SEE KRANG 3 GO INTO YOUNG NIGHTSHADE'S EAR

YOUNG NIGHTSHADE WALKS INTO A KRANG PORTAL

NIGHTSHADE

I was kidnapped. By the Krang.

INT. A ROOM IN KARAI'S BASE - NIGHT

ROUX MONET

What?! But don't you know that the Foot Clan is working with the Krang?

NIGHTSHADE

Yeah...

BEBOP 2

Then why you working with us, man?

NIGHTSHADE

I need the money.

ROCKSTEADY 2

Money for what?

NIGHTSHADE

Money for my dad. He fell ill years ago, but needs help getting back on his feet,

ROUX MONET

What did he fall ill with?

NIGHTSHADE

Liver failure. He needed a transplant, but I was doing... uh... jobs to get this one guy 5 million dollars to do it...